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Milner Place describes himself as a knockabout who still searches for the magic in poetry, knows the philosopher's stone is a fiction but won't relinquish the adventure. He has published six poetry collections (one in Spanish) including In a Rare Time of Rain, (Chatto & Windus)

Emma-Jane Arkady's poetry is widely published in magazines. Current obsessions include J.C.Bach, the railways of southern England, Manchester Central Library, the Birmingham Canal Navigations, Tulse Hill. Her collection Lithium is published by Arc Publications (2001).

Peter Lewin was born in Lancaster and for most of his life has lived near the Lakes. He now lives in Kirkham. His work has appeared in various magazines. A collection, Knightwood, was published by Dog, a London based magazine.

May Ivimy's seventh collection, Strawberries in the Salad was published by Brentham Press in 1992, and her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines, and been broadcast on the BBC Third Programme. Formerly Treasurer of the Poetry Society, she founded Ver Poets in 1966, continuing as Organiser and Editor. She has received 3 awards for service to Poetry. Born in Greenwich, London, she worked as a clerk for local government and the BMA; now retired, lives with her husband, Ray Badman, in a rural area near St. Albans.

Ra Page lives in Manchester. He is a freelance journalist, reviewer and poet. His work has been published in a range of magazines.

Pat Winslow's work has been published widely in magazines and anthologies, most recently in Not For The Academy (Only Women Press). She has two collections, The Fact of an Eye (Amazing Colossal) and Harvest (Jackson's Arm).

Born in 1947, in Canada, Paul Sutherland has written poetry throughout his adult life; immigrating to England in 1973. He founded Dream Catcher in 1995 and remains its main editor. In 2000, he collaborated with musician, Graeme Scott, to produce a CD, Mid Atlantic. A pamphlet, The Flood, is due out this year from Glass Head Press.

Ken Champion was born in London's East End, now lives in Essex. Lectures in sociology. He has had over 60 poems published in magazines and anthologies and is now looking toward a collection.

Jane Routh is a North Lancashire photographer and ecologist. Winner of Blue Nose Poets of the Year 2001; and overall winner of this year's Poetry Business Competition. The winning collection Circumnavigation (Smith/Doorstop) is due Autumn 2002.

Born in Birmingham, Gary Boswell was writer-in-residence to the City of Salford in 1986-88 and began his love affair with the North West during two weeks at the Lowry centenary exhibitions where he ran workshops that blew his mind. In subsequent years, he has been resident writer in Barrow-in-Furness, HMP Risley, Wigan, Sunderland and North Norfolk. He was the Poetry Society's Recycling Poet in 1999 and ran the world's first Poetry Jumble Sale in Sheringham which was later featured on NTL Arts in Holland. He was also the youngest living poet featured in the BBC's Nation's 100 Favourite Comic Poems collection. The poems featured here are from a sequence commissioned by Lancaster Litfest as part of their New Pages project - written in Amsterdam, they are now being published in a special watermarked edition by Amsterdam's own Snowball Press.

Virgil Suárez, born in Havana, Cuba, now lives in the United States. A prolific writer of prose and poetry, among his many published works are four novels, and four collections of poetry. His essays, stories, poems and translations continue to appear nationally and internationally. He divides his time between Miami and Tallahassee where he lives. He is currently working on a new novel, Sonny Manteca's Blues, and a new collection of poems.

Ian Parks was born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, in 1959. His first collection, A Climb Through Altered Landscapes (Blackwater 1998) received widespread praise, particularly for its revitalisation of the love poem. A CD, The Angel of the North, and a pamphlet Lines of Dissent, with Seán Body are published by Tarantula.

Seán Body's collection, Witness, was published by Tarantula in 1995. He edited At The End Of The Rodden, a collection of poetry and short stories by Manchester Irish Writers (Scribhneoiri 1997). His joint pamphlet, with Ian Parks, Lines of Dissent, was published in 2001.